On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 10:05 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > >> With an overlay: search sunrice.gentoo.org for the package (no, I don't > >> know category/name), sync that directory (no, I'm not syncing the whole > >> sunrice tree), check it over, note some mistakes, compile it if I feel > >> OK with it, it fails, I fix it - and what then? Where do I discuss the > >> problems? How do I get my fixes to other users, considering the package > >> is devless and the b.g.o bug is out of date? If I open a b.g.o bug, will > >> it be read? > > If the overlay were using a decent distributed SCM, you would get your > fixes to users by posting your repository and requesting that it be > merged in. I was under the impression that all ebuilds in this overlay > would already have an associated bug for discussion.
Initially, yes. What happens once the user gets complete access to the repository, though? Are we going to be keeping people from adding packages without bugs? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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